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In a flawless early-morning liftoff, Rocket Lab successfully deployed four disk-shaped satellites into a very low earth orbit. The mission, named “Don’t Be Such a Square,” was Rocket Lab’s first public mission from Wallops in well over a year.
Aside from the launchpads at KSC and Vandenberg, MARS, or the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, is the third busiest launch site in the United States. MARS, also called Wallops Flight Facility (WFF), offers different launch trajectories that are not available at Florida launch sites. Typically, Wallops supports the launch and recovery of sounding rockets, which are small payloads compared to what is launched in Florida.
Flight 11 was the final launch of the Block 2 variant of Starship. That mission was promising, and both the Booster and Starship survived and splashed down successfully to their respective targets.
Following this mission, SpaceX won’t be launching Starship for a hot minute, taking some time to make some significant changes to both their facilities at Starbase and the launch vehicles.
SpaceX is targeting as early as Sunday, August 24th for the next flight of Starship from Starbase, Texas. SpaceX will be launching Starship for the first time since Starship 36 exploded during static fire testing at Massey’s in June. Starship 37 and Super Heavy Booster 16 will be used for the flight test.
Legendary rock musician Ozzy Osbourne died this week at the age of 76 from complications of Parkinson’s disease. Known for his often dark and drug driven personality, Ozzy had a music career that spanned well over 50 years, between his rock band Black Sabbath and his solo career. Ozzy experienced a lot of backlash throughout his life, including some that nearly canceled a concert in the Sunshine State.
